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![Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani held talks in Doha on Wednesday with outgoing Trump adviser Jared Kushner [QNA]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/1000.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
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![Fauci, who is part of the White House coronavirus task force, is set to meet with Biden's team on Thursday. [File: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/2020-12-03T111242Z_207343551_RC2NFK9CLM4Z_RTRMADP_3_GLOBAL-POY-COVID.jpg?resize=120%2C80)
![People line up to receive free holiday boxes of food from the Food Bank For New York City ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday in the US [File: Brendan McDermid/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/foodline.jpg?resize=120%2C80)
![Javad Zarif said Iran was ready to 'fully implement' the nuclear agreement if the United States rejoins the deal on the same terms without preconditions [File: Russian Foreign Ministry/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/000_8QM9E6.jpg?resize=120%2C80)
![Azerbaijani soldiers hold national flags as they celebrate the transfer of the Lachin region to Azerbaijan's control, as part of a peace deal that required Armenian forces to cede the Azerbaijani territories they held outside Nagorno-Karabakh [Emrah Gurel/AP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/AP_20336442695379.jpg?resize=120%2C80)
![US officials hope that 40 percent of adults in the US could be immunised in three months [Shannon Stapleton/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/2020-12-03T012424Z_1370169099_RC2CFK9C8Z1F_RTRMADP_3_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-USA-1.jpg?resize=120%2C80)
![A picture taken on October 14, 2020 shows Israeli construction cranes and excavators at a building site of new housing units in the Jewish settlement of Kochav Yaakov, near the Palestinian city of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank [Ahmad Gharabli/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/000_8T32HL.jpg?resize=120%2C80)
![Essential workers such as Walmart employees face an increased risk of exposure to COVID-19 [File: Eduardo Munoz/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/2020-07-20T230838Z_1659856405_RC2BXH902P43_RTRMADP_3_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-MASKS.jpg?resize=120%2C80)
![Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani held talks in Doha on Wednesday with outgoing Trump adviser Jared Kushner [QNA]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/1000.jpg?resize=120%2C80)
Coronavirus pandemic
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![US officials hope that 40 percent of adults in the US could be immunised in three months [Shannon Stapleton/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/2020-12-03T012424Z_1370169099_RC2CFK9C8Z1F_RTRMADP_3_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-USA-1.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
![The University of Washington's influential Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation has projected the toll could reach nearly 450,000 by March 1 without greater attention to social distancing and mask-wearing [Shannon Stapleton/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/2020-12-03T005003Z_674604380_RC2CFK91ITSY_RTRMADP_3_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-USA-1.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
![Former French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing has died of complications from COVID-19. He was 94. [File: Morris Mac Matzen/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/2020-12-02T222218Z_505311878_RC2AFK9NCN7W_RTRMADP_3_PEOPLE-GISCARD.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
![Bob Underhill, 84, meets with his wife Patricia, 82, who has Alzheimer's, as they are allowed to visit with physical contact for the first time at the Chiswick Nursing Centre, which has introduced a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) test with results ready in 30 minutes, in London, Britain December 2, 2020 [Kevin Coombs/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/2020-12-02T122731Z_1064339068_RC20FK9ZCL3L_RTRMADP_3_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-BRITAIN-RELATIVES.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Indian teacher wins $1m prize for promoting girls’ education
Ranjitsinh Disale, selected from 12,000 nominations, opts to share Global Teacher Prize money with nine other finalists.
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Opinion
Aid coming to Ethiopia’s Tigray as refugees recount war suffering
PM Abiy Ahmed declared victory over the Tigray People’s Liberation Front after federal forces captured region’s capital.
![Local police and army officials inspect Village Eight transit centre, which hosts Ethiopian refugees who fled the Tigray conflict, near the Ethiopian border in Gedaref, eastern Sudan [File: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/000_8WC9YR.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
Turkey announces vaccination plan for Chinese CoronaVac
Health minister says early use authorisation will be granted after Turkish labs confirm the shots are safe.
![The CoronaVac, which is a so-called inactivated vaccine, will be delivered in two doses per person [File: Anton Vaganov/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/088ed52ad27740d1a3b428307db106de_18.jpeg?resize=570%2C380)
Twitter expands hate speech rules to include race, ethnicity
The company banned speech that dehumanises others based on religion or caste last year.
![A Twitter spokeswoman said the company had planned from the start to add new categories to the policy over time [File: Getty Images]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/GettyImages-1220416504.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
Trump discussed pre-emptive pardons for family: Reports
The president is said to be worried about future investigations of his children and his son-in-law Jared Kushner.
![Among those President Trump reportedly asked about pardons for include his eldest children, and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner [File: Evan Vucci/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/AP_20308205899072.jpg?resize=570%2C380)
Search persists for parents of 628 kids separated at US border
Parents of 333 children are believed to be in the US, while parents of the other 295 are believed to reside abroad.
![Parents of 333 children are believed to be in the United States, while parents of the other 295 are believed to be outside the US [File: Moises Castillo/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/AP_20023472370221.jpg?resize=570%2C380)